TEFEATES: Tegeates, Tegea, ancient town of Arcadia

and its first capital.

22. 19. la grande Chartreuse : a celebrated monastery founded

in 1084 in a valley of the Alps, in the department of Isère. It was evacuated in 1903,

23. 6. Bédouins (Arabie hedâici, ' dwellers in the désert ') : nomad

Arabs of the désert, generally living by brigandage in

Northern Africa and Arabia.

18. Misitra : Mistra or Misithra, a towm of Laconia, above the

site of ancient Sparta. It was restored about 1248 by an

Achaian prince, from whose time date the still existing

fortifications and churches. It is a good spécimen of a

mediaeval Greek town.

26. 3. Hélène : the celebrated wife of Menelaus, and cause of

the Trojan war.

26. 7. Chiron : the most famous of the Centaurs. Hercules and

Achilles were siipposed to hâve been his pupils. 18. Amyclée : a town of Laconia, on the E. bank of the

Eurotas, near Sparta, now called Slave-Khori, the home

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of Castor and Pollux ; Heleua and Clytemnestra also came

from Amyclae.

27. ô. Hadgi \ a ' hadgi ' is a Mussulman who has made the JiadJ (pilgrimage) to Mecca.

29. 1. les Albanais : the Albaniaus are half-civilized mountaineers, and form the best soldiers of the Turkish army. Their laugnage is distinctly Indo-Europeau.

3. le temple d" Apollon : near Amyclae were the old sanctuaries of Apollo and the tomb of Hyaciuthus. around ■which a feast was annually celebrated. The llower called hyacinth was said to hâve sprung from the blood of Hyacinthus, beloved of Apollo and Zephyrus. ZephjTus, jealous because Hyacinthus favoured Apollo, caused Apollo's quoit to strike and slay the beauteons youth whUe the Uvo were at play.

31. 1. Lyciir^ue, Agis, Lysandre, Léonidas : Lycurgus, supposed to be the law-giver of Sparta. Agis (244-235 B.c.), king of Sparta. Lysander, a Spartan gênerai who defeated the Athenians at Aegos-Potamoi, was killed in 395 B.c. Léonidas, king of Sparta (490-480 B.c.), was the hero of Thermopylae, Avhich he defended against the Persians, and where he perished with 300 Spartans.

34. 15. de Ragiisains : Ragusa is a seaport of Austria, in Dalmatia. There is another Ragusa in Sicily, not far from Syracuse.